At night, Du Yu did not rest, wrote a long letter, and sent a confidant to Wuguan to ask to see Wang Ji.

Among the three generals under Deng Ai, Xianhong is Deng Ai's sworn friend, and he obeys Deng Ai's words, Yang Xin is the opposite, he is loyal to the imperial court, and finally died under Liu Yin's hands, and Wang Ji is in between, he is neither loyal to Deng Ai like Xianhong, sworn to die, nor is he willing to sacrifice himself for the country like Yang Xin, the reason why he is willing to surrender to Shu is completely based on the protection of his self, which undoubtedly creates an opportunity for Du to persuade him anyway.

Wang Ji received a letter from Du Pre, Du Pre, like Zhong Hui, was also a literati, played a good pen, the letter was very long, talking about the past and the present, the words were sincere, and the rhetoric was gorgeous, so it can be seen that Du Pre still took a lot of thought on this letter.

However, Wang Ji just smiled, and abandoned the letter on the case, even if Du Qian's writing is good, it is impossible to move Wang Ji's heart, if Liu Yin is in defeat now, maybe Wang Ji may be anyway, and now there is a danger of mountains and rivers in the pass, Liu Yin's army has basically pacified Liangzhou, and can return to the army at any time, it can be said that the situation of Shu in Yongliang is very good, in this case, Wang Ji has already eaten the scales and is determined to follow Liu Yin, and how can Du Ji be moved by a letter.

Wang Ji still knows Sima Yan well, the outside is wide and the inside is taboo, and he will repay if he surrenders to Shu, there is no turning back, Pei Xiu's fate always warns Wang Ji, you must know that Pei Xiu is Sima Yan's henchman, because he betrayed Sima Yan once, he was secretly eliminated by Sima Yan.

Although this is a secret, Liu Yin is familiar with the inside story, so Pei Xiu's death will definitely not escape Sima Yan's involvement. Wang Ji asked himself that he was definitely not as close as Pei Xiu and Sima Yan, so even if Du Yu made a wish and swore in the letter, it was far from being able to move Wang Ji's heart.

In the reply to Du Pre, Wang Ji only wrote a few words: "Tomorrow will be a showdown." ”

The envoy returned to the Jin army camp with Wang Ji's letter, Du Yu saw that Wang Ji was unmoved, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, it stands to reason that people like Wang Ji should be a weak mental wallgrass, easy to fall with the wind, but the army is coming to the city, Wang Ji resolutely refused to do it anyway, it should be said that Sima Yan's bloody suppression of dissidents and rebels in Luoyang left a deep psychological shadow on Wang Ji, so that the original wavering surrender faction surrendered to Shu with iron heart.

Since Wang Qi was determined to fight to the death, Du Yu was helpless, and the fourth watch made rice, and the fifth watch sent troops to prepare to storm Wuguan.

Wuguan is facing the mountain, three facing the water, the water is not a river in the general sense, but a gorge high valley deep stream, to fight Wuguan, there is no opportunistic shortcut, can only be a strong attack.

Du pre first ordered Shao Yuan to lead the troops to the city to challenge, Shao Yuan immediately received the order, rushed to the city, scolded the formation, probably the female members of the eighteenth generation of Wang Qi's ancestors were greeted by the Jin army, foul language, and humiliation in every way.

The Shu army in the city can't help but be filled with righteous indignation, but Wang Ji is calm, unmoved, Du Pre's fierce battle tricks, for Wang Ji, is not effective at all, only by defending the danger, in order to play the best and avoid the weaknesses, play the greatest role of the Wuguan Pass, if you go out of battle easily, it is not in the heart of Du Pre.

Shao Yuan scolded dryly, how could no one pay attention to the city, he couldn't help but be impetuous, Wang Ji saw it at the battlement, and saw that Shao Yuan was completely unprepared, so he took a bow and arrow, and shot an arrow, impartially, and just hit Shao Yuan's helmet, which frightened him and left in embarrassment.

Du Zhen saw clearly in the battle and knew that Wang Ji would only defend and not fight, so he ordered the Jin army to attack the city.

The Guancheng of Wuguan is in the canyon, the width is only about a few dozen zhang, although the Jin army has 50,000 people, but it is completely unleashed, and it can only send hundreds of elite troops as a death squad to attack first.

Such a narrow terrain is quite beneficial to the Shu army that waits for work, the tall and strong city walls, so that the Jin army's siege action has become very difficult, the city arrows are like rain, but only a moment of work, the Jin army has suffered heavy casualties.

Without such a large siege equipment as a catapult, it is very difficult to break through a fortified city like Wuguan, not to mention, the city wall of Wuguan is not like the city wall in the plain area is built with rammed earth, the entire city is completely made of local materials, with large pieces of stone masonry, even if it is a catapult attack, it is difficult to blast open the city wall.

Fighting such a fortified city, you can't play any tricks, and you can't play any tricks, it's just two words: attack! Du knew that if he wanted to break through, there was no shortcut, and he could only rely on the tactics of crowds to wear down the defenders.

In the back row, Du pre-mobilized hundreds of archers, and took turns to fire arrows at the head of Wuguan City to cover the infantry attacking the city. The besieging infantry braved the rain of wood, stones, and arrows with shields in their hands, and climbed along the bamboo ladder towards the top of the city.

The people in front were killed and wounded, and the people behind immediately went up, although the narrow valley road could not accommodate many people, but the Jin army had sufficient reserve forces, no matter how many casualties were in front, how many people could always be on top of the back, and on the first line of the siege, the Jin army always maintained a full number of attackers.

Du knew that the danger was difficult to fight, he just wanted to use this continuous offensive to consume the strength and morale of the defenders, anyway, he had a lot of people, not afraid of casualties, not afraid of attrition, twelve hours of continuous attack, day and night, constantly creating pressure on the Shu army defending the city, and only in this way could it be possible to capture Wuguan.

Du pre's fighting style of fighting and attrition brought a certain pressure to Wang Qi, although the city was strong, but the shortcomings in the number of defenders were the biggest hidden danger, the Jin army was superior in numbers, and could not be afraid of casualties, but the Shu army was not good, for every casualty, the strength of the defense was weakened by a point.

What is more difficult is that the Jin army's non-stop style of play during the day made the Shu army very tired, although Wang Ji also adjusted his tactics in time, divided the defenders into two shifts, and rotated day and night, but under the non-stop attacks of the Jin army, the pressure on the defenders was very great, and such a tense mental state could easily lead to the collapse of the army's morale.

The battle went on in a stalemate, for a day, two days, three days...... The Jin army's attack momentum seems to be quite vigorous, and it never knows the word tiredness, whether it is day or night, it is an attack that will never stop. Above and below the city, corpses were piled up, and the soldiers on both sides showed varying degrees of attrition.

Wang Ji was helpless and sent a signal to Chang'an for help. (To be continued.) )